Rutgers Mathematics Department Colloquium

2004-2005

Unless otherwise noted, mathematics department colloquia take place on Friday afternoons 4:30-5:30PM in Hill Center 705 , Busch Campus.

Here are a map and driving directions. If you need information on public transportation , you may want to check the New Jersey Transit page for information on fares and schedules for the Northeast Corridor Line. Taxis are available at the New Brunswick train station (fare about $7) and can take you to and from the Hill Center (Victory Cabs, (732) 545-6666). The Rutgers Campus Bus System provides free intra-campus transportation, with the A and H buses taking passengers between Busch Campus and College Avenue, with the A providing a faster ride from College Avenue and the H providing a faster ride from the Hill Center : please visit their website for bus schedules and maps, including real-time tracking of campus buses.

Unfortunately, colloquium cancellations do occur from time to time. Please feel free to call our department (732)-445-3921 before embarking on your journey.

Fall 2004 Schedule

Colloquium participants and hosts may wish to also consult the Rutgers University academic calendar , as well as its calendars of religious holidays and of weather emergencies and university closings.

Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Rutgers Faculty Hosts	Colloquium Lecture Title
September 10	Department Reception	Richard Falk
September 17	No Colloquium
September 24	Van Vu UCSD	Jeff Kahn	Long arithmetic progressions in sumsets and the Erdos-Folkman Conjecture
October 1	Wolfgang Ziller Univ. Penn.	Xiaochun Rong	Manifolds with positive sectional curvature
October 8	Arthur Benjamin Harvey Mudd	Doron Zeilberger	Counting on Determinants
October 15	Pavel Etingof MIT	Vladimir Retakh	Hochschild cohomology of preprojective algebras
October 22	No colloquium
October 29	Adrian Ocneanu Penn. State	Jim Lepowsky Yi-Zhi Huang	Quantum subgroups and quantum symmetry
November 5	Abhay Ashtekar Penn. State	Joel L. Lebowitz	How Black holes Grow: A monotonicity formula in Riemannian geometry
November 12	Jacob Fox MIT	Rados Radoicic	Ramsey theory on the integers and reals
November 19 at 1:10 pm	Eitan Tadmor University of Maryland	Haim Brezis	Edge detections, hierarchical decompositions and multiscale nonlinear dynamics
November 19 at 4:30 pm	Jack Xin UT Austin	Zhen-chao Han	Ear Modeling and Auditory Transform
November 26	Thanksgiving Recess
December 3	Henry P. McKean Courant Inst.	Doron Zeilberger	E. Sparre-Andersen and the combinatorial method for coin-tossing.
December 10
December 17
January 28	Konstantin Mischaikow Georgia Inst. of Tech.	Eduardo Sontag	Dynamics, Topology, and Computation
February 4	Reserved for special talks
February 11
February 18	Stephen Wolfram	Doron Zeilberger
February 25
March 4
March 11
March 18	Spring Break
March 25	Reserved for Laura Matusevich	Doron Zeilberger Diane MacLagan
April 1	Gerhard Michler
April 8 - 10	Treves 75th Birthday Conference
April 15	Alexander Nabutovsky Penn. State Univ.
April 22
April 29

Note to Rutgers mathematics faculty: We are now accepting nominations for the Autumn 2004 colloquium series, so please contact us with any suggestions you may have for speakers you would like to invite.

Autumn 2003 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Spring 2003 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Autumn 2002 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Spring 2002 Colloquium Schedule Archive
Autumn 2001 Colloquium Schedule Archive

Colloquium organizers: Xiaochun Rong (rong at math dot rutgers dot edu) Zheng-chao Han (zchan at math dot rutgers dot edu) and Chris Woodward (ctw at rci dot rutgers dot edu). Please contact them with suggestions and inquiries.

Last updated on October 20, 2004 by Chris Woodward.

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